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6 years’ experience working with data. Expertise in quantitative modeling, growing people and making data-driven decisions. Currently working as a Research Associate (Ph.D. Candidate) at the intersection of computer science, statistics and the social sciences as member of both the Entrepreneurship & Data Science groups.

I am looking for a position where I can use the skills that I have developed during my years in practice and academia to lead projects in the frame of analytics. As BI developer in the Data Enablement team at FREENOW, I would be able to leverage my experience in teaching and applying data-driven techniques and would be able to solve the problems I most enjoy working on (technologies used mostly: R, SQL and Python).

Industry Experience

Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany 06/2018 - Present

Program Manager | Research Associate (Institute of Entrepreneurship)

Conducting collaborative research, teaching students, managing industry projects while pursuing independent research and further academic and data science related qualifications.

  • Lead of B2B/B2C industry innovation projects (focus: digital transformation, big data analytics)
  • Designed and conducted multiple lecture units and exams in entrepreneurship and data science
  • Developed and implemented a Digital Teaching and Learning Ecosystem to teach classes remotely
  • Supervised student theses, projects and internships
  • Presented at international conferences and about to publish in related journals

Lufthansa Technik AG, Miami, USA & Hamburg, Germany 04/2017 - 03/2018

Master’s Degree Candidate (dept.: Closed Loop Supply Chain Management)

Created a custom AI-based solution for reducing cost & response time (in collaboration with IBM Watson).

  • Communicated with stakeholders to define project parameters and keep them up to date on project status
  • Optimized use of resources to complete projects ahead of deadline and under budget
  • Designated resources, assigned tasks and monitored performance for each part of the project

Horváth & Partners Management Consultants, Frankfurt on the Main, Germany 10/2016 - 02/2017

Management Consulting, intern (dept.: Transportation, Travel & Logistics)

Worked as a PMO manager on a project for the development of new location concepts of a large European railroad company, replacing the entire existing infrastructure of this major corporate.

  • Operational execution of PMO activities (reporting, budget tracking, preparation and follow-up of meetings)
  • Assistance in establishing the project structure
  • Preparation of profitability calculations and capacity / utilization analyses for the individual sites

AUDI AG, Neckarsulm, Germany 09/2013 - 12/2013

Process Optimization, intern (dept.: Body Construction A6/A4)

As coordinator of the Lean Manufacturing Team, I was responsible to help people to understand the Lean Management philosophy and the operational excellence approach of AUDI (Audi Production System, APS).

  • Training and coaching of lean methods with focus on problem solving, logistics and process synchronisation
  • Preparation, implementation and moderation of shopfloor management projects in direct and indirect areas
  • Optimizing various processes via process mapping and value stream analysis


Fraunhofer institutes (ILT & IPT), Aachen, Germany 2013 - 2016

Student assistants

L’Arche Greater Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada 08/2010 - 08/2011

(Live in) Care Assistant (Alternative mandatory community service)

Teaching Experience

Data Science 10/2019 - Present

Designer & Instructor of multiple business oriented Data Science and Machine Learning courses:

  • Data Science certificate program
  • Business Decisions with Machine Learning
  • Business Data Science Basics
  • Building Business Data Products

Entrepreneurship & Innovation 10/2018 - Present

Teaching students skills needed to build a technology startup from the ground up in varying classes:

  • Startup Engineering
  • Sustainable Entrepreunrship
  • Technology Entrepreunrship
  • Creation of Business Opportunities

Education

RMIT University Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 01/2023 - 03/2023

Visiting Research Scholar

Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany 06/2018 - Present

Ph.D. Thesis in Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship Science

Quantitative dissertation (using SQL, R, Python) on the influence of social, structural and reputational effects on entrepreuneurial success.

  • Creation of various databases by scraping different data providers and collaborative platforms
  • Natural language processing on linkedin and startup databases to extract features for network analysis
  • Machine Learning and statistical analysis on large (> 5 billion records) github and stackoverflow datasets

Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands 02/2016 - 06/2016

Visiting Research Scholar

Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain 02/2014 - 06/2014

Visiting Research Scholar

RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany 09/2011 - 03/2018

B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Business Administration & Engineering

Professional Development (Certification)

Business Science University, remote 06/2019 - Present

Applying enterprise-grade end-to-end projects (business & finance) using machine learning and web apps.

DataCamp, remote 06/2019 - Present

Foundations of data science including statistics, inference, computer science, predictive analytics, machine learning and other technologies to gain insights from big data (using R, Pyhton and SQL).